Kyrgyzstan has a mixed track record in its progress towards achieving the national MDGs. It is unlikely that all of the MDG targets will be reached by 2015 if the country continues along its current path. The country can potentially achieve its targets on poverty reduction, universal enrolment in primary education and literacy. Making sustainable progress towards MDGs will require the implementation of concrete plans of action in priority areas:
• Kyrgyz Republic is off track to meet targets for gender equality in employment and parliament. Although gender equality in primary schools has been met, unemployment is high amongst women, women’s wages are lower than those for men and women hold few managerial and parliamentary positions.
• Child and infant mortality has fallen steadily but slowly since the 1980s. In 2006 it was estimated that infant mortality in the Kyrgyz Republic is 38 per 1,000 live births, while child mortality is 44. Faster progress would be needed to meet the 2015 MDG target. Most children are immunised against measles.
• Official data suggest that maternal death rates have fallen in Kyrgyzstan; however there are significant differences between oblasts, with poorer oblasts having higher maternal death rates. Most births (96.8% in 2006) are attended by skilled personnel.
• The Kyrgyz Republic is experiencing a rapid growth of HIV/AIDS, particularly among intra-venous drug users. Death rates from TB have more than doubled from 8/100,000 in 1990 to 18/100,000 in the most recent years, with Multi Drug Resistant TB a significant problem. Malaria exists at low levels in Kyrgyzstan.